Unfulfilled Potential
Saturday’s less-than-satisfying victory over Rutgers could be considered a microcosm of Carolina’s entire football situation. Let’s call it unfulfilled potential. First, the stadium. You would think, after the...
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The Butch Davis Experiment
Posted by Art Chansky | Sep 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
For the accomplished chemist, Holden Thorp, the first phase of the “Butch Davis Experiment” went off like another everyday application of E = mc2. With mass, energy and velocity, Carolina sent James Madison hurtling...
Read MoreNew Paradigm Needed
Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
The pressure is immense on Holden Thorp to make the right hire for Carolina’s next Director of Athletics. Thorp remains under heavy criticism for firing Butch Davis a week before football practice began, and that scrutiny comes...
Read MoreRoy's New Digs
Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Roy Williams’ “lamp story” best illuminates how much in need the UNC basketball offices were of expanding and upgrading. “When we moved into the Smith Center,” Williams said of his days as an assistant in 1986, “I carried a...
Read More"Carolina Firsters"?
Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
This notion of “Football First” or “Basketball First” fans at Carolina amuses me. Having graduated from UNC and been around for four decades, I am hard-pressed to think of a Carolina alumnus or rabid fan who roots passionately...
Read MoreRe-Emphasizing Football
Posted by Art Chansky | Aug 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
Maybe his timing shocked people and maybe he did not do it with the polish of a senior statesman (inadvertently committing a minor NCAA violation, himself), but it astounds me how Holden Thorp has become the villain in the...
Read MoreA Way Out
Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
You remember the classic Kevin Costner movie in which he seemingly had No Way Out of his pickle as a double secret agent? Carolina avoided that dilemma in the first phase of a path to restore its reputation and integrity. It...
Read MoreDavis Should Go — Now
Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
UNC can still begin moving beyond its regrettable football scandal of the last year, regardless of its final fate from the NCAA. Ohio State has conveniently provided Carolina with the model it should use in order to separate a...
Read MoreYou Can Call Him Jones
Posted by Art Chansky | Jul 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
A few things you may not know about the new radio Voice of the Tar Heels: His proper name is Monrovie Jones Angell, IV. That’s on par with Forest Orion Mixon, III, which is Mick’s official moniker, and a lot more eccentric than...
Read MoreCarolinas Connections
Posted by Art Chansky | Jun 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
A gala wedding party was thrown at Litchfield Plantation in South Carolina last weekend, and among other things it was a great example of why people who live in both Carolinas argue and joke over which is the REAL Carolina. Each...
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